Reply to: The 250 a day agency

[Phoenix]

All I see is a bird showing her muff. Not sure if it's platted though but certainly quite unkempt...

Perhaps my gardening Services would help trim their Hedges

[oraclesmith]

So like a temporary contract. I.e. 1 year contracts with fixed holidays, sick pays and so on and penalties if terminated before. In the continent actually those contracts are quite common as companies don't want to hire permanent people (permies have rights in EU, it's not like in UK). Is it becoming common here too?

Yep, something like that. Some large firms in certain sectors have engineers that have been 'on contract' all their working lives. I'd hazard a guess that this sort of behaviour is why the HMRC dreamed up IR35 and inflicted it even on us Limited's on 3 and 6 month project-based or interim stints. IBest consider them as fairly well paid permanent jobs with the possibility of squeezing a little (just a little) more usable cash out of them than the equivalent permie job.

[hyperD]

Nah, my beard be platted not threaded!

Check here for a proper picture.

All I see is a bird showing her muff. Not sure if it's platted though but certainly quite unkempt...

[CaribbeanPirate]

Nah, my beard be platted not threaded!

Check here for a proper picture.

[Francko]

IT'S BRILLIANT!

Except, I only go snorkelling. I keep saying to myself that I should learn to dive but I am not confident in the water for that. Been down in the submarines though!

When I go back at the end of the year I must do something about it. I’m back in the UK ‘coz my old mum is not well and … I’m soon going to be an orphan.

I thought Caribbean Pirates looked more like Jonny Depp, rather than a middle-aged fatty with a long uncured beard. Are you sure you are not Threaded?

[CaribbeanPirate]

IT'S BRILLIANT!

Except, I only go snorkelling. I keep saying to myself that I should learn to dive but I am not confident in the water for that. Been down in the submarines though!

When I go back at the end of the year I must do something about it. I’m back in the UK ‘coz my old mum is not well and … I’m soon going to be an orphan.

[Phoenix]

Nah, got loads of American tourists to do that. They think it's original.

I am more likely to say. "Another rum and coke, please" or "Put another bottle of Stella on my tab".

And how is the Diving?

[CaribbeanPirate]

Nah, got loads of American tourists to do that. They think it's original.

I am more likely to say. "Another rum and coke, please" or "Put another bottle of Stella on my tab".

[Phoenix]

Do you say "hAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH, Jim Lad" too?

AHoy me harties!!

Yo Ho Ho!

[CaribbeanPirate]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unb...tness_of_Being

"According to Kundera, "being" is full of "unbearable lightness" because each of us has only one life to live: "Einmal ist Keinmal" ("once is never", i.e., "what happened once might as well have never happened at all"). Therefore, each life is ultimately insignificant; every decision ultimately does not matter. Since decisions do not matter, they are "light": they do not tie us down. But at the same time, the insignificance of our decisions - our lives, or being - is unbearable. Hence, "the unbearable lightness of being.""

I say loads of bollox things like that when I’ve had too much rum on a Sunday afternoon. Laying under the palm tree on Seven Mile Beach
watching the sunset has that sort of effect on people.

[Francko]

Frankco thinks he is a contractor because he had to sign a contract when accepting his permie job...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unb...tness_of_Being

"According to Kundera, "being" is full of "unbearable lightness" because each of us has only one life to live: "Einmal ist Keinmal" ("once is never", i.e., "what happened once might as well have never happened at all"). Therefore, each life is ultimately insignificant; every decision ultimately does not matter. Since decisions do not matter, they are "light": they do not tie us down. But at the same time, the insignificance of our decisions - our lives, or being - is unbearable. Hence, "the unbearable lightness of being.""

[AtW]

Frankco thinks he is a contractor because he had to sign a contract when accepting his permie job...

[Francko]

Some industries have got away with having pseudo-employees like this for years and they just apply the same to IT contractors. It's like having a semi-steady job. £200 a day works out to £52k assuming the 20 days holiday is paid as part of the deal, maybe £45k as a comparable gross salary. It's pointless trying to avoid IR35 with this sort of thing though. Not a bad compromise for someone who wants stability in their contract whilst getting paid a bit more than a permie.

So like a temporary contract. I.e. 1 year contracts with fixed holidays, sick pays and so on and penalties if terminated before. In the continent actually those contracts are quite common as companies don't want to hire permanent people (permies have rights in EU, it's not like in UK). Is it becoming common here too?

[Churchill]

What's this no-sense spam? I continue to receive emails from this agency which offers £ 250 a day contracts (and actually the requirements are quite high). Do they find people for that? I can make more with a permie job. Do you receive this spam too?

Frankco, a piece of advice, stop being such a w anker!

[oraclesmith]

I got sent one this morning, for about £200 a day. There seems quite a few about at the moment. I checked out the recruitment firm and asked a few questions. The one I saw was a semi-permanent sort of role with holiday included in the deal - like a permie job but with contracts renewed each year. They even pay for the contractor to embed themselves within the company and become an in-house expert on some technology or another.

Some industries have got away with having pseudo-employees like this for years and they just apply the same to IT contractors. It's like having a semi-steady job. £200 a day works out to £52k assuming the 20 days holiday is paid as part of the deal, maybe £45k as a comparable gross salary. It's pointless trying to avoid IR35 with this sort of thing though. Not a bad compromise for someone who wants stability in their contract whilst getting paid a bit more than a permie.